Grill Maestro

A smoker is a pretty simple device and if you wanted to build your own, you might be surprised to learn that all you need is $50 and a little creativity. Fortunately, creativity has been supplied in this episode of Good Eats with Alton Brown. Alton Brown is known for his scientific approach to cooking [...]

I love smoking, the smell of the smoke, the relaxing afternoon, cracking open a cold beer as I wait, and the… well, everything about it.
One of the fun things about smoking is that you can pretty much use any hardwood as long as it’s clean and no manufactured. You won’t want to use wood [...]

This ten minute video by the Illinois BBQ Society pits the Weber Smokey Mountain against newcomer ProQ Excel 20. It goes into every aspect of the grill, including a video overview of the whole smoker. They’re virgin smokers too, they haven’t been used yet. I have the WSM and love it.

Here’s part two. A solid [...]

The other week, I tried to take a shortcut when smoking some pork ribs because it was so cold outside. The charcoal was working overtime trying to keep everything up to the safe temperature and I was getting tired of trying to regular it all so after three hours of smoking, I pulled the ribs [...]

I was going to fire up the Weber Smokey Mountain the other day to smoke up some pork tenderloin (pork is so easy to smoke… unlike my arch nemesis, beef briskey) when I balked. See, the WSM is a huge smoker for an individual and it has two grill surfaces that are each 18.5″ in [...]

Here are four reasons I enjoy smoking more than I enjoy grilling:
Relaxation
There’s something to be said about cooking for long periods of time that really put your mind at ease. With direct heat cooking, you have to be attentive and sometimes even rushed when you’re managing the grill. With smoking, once you get the temperatures [...]

Ever wonder how they make that liquid smoke flavoring? Wonder no more and watch this video courtesy of bbqtv:

The Virtual Weber Bullet site is a cornucopia of useful information about the Weber Smokey Mountain smoker, I turn to it at least once a week to find some useful tips and tricks about grilling and smoking with the WSM. This week, I discovered a clever little hack by Mike Willsey of S.C. called the [...]

For Memorial Day weekend, I put together the Brinkmann SmokeN Grill Charcoal Smoker and Grill courtesy of Home Depot (get it there, if you want it, instead of Amazon.com, it’s only around $35 now; I provided the link for additional details) in order to provide this review of its features.
Overall, it’s a very affordable smoker [...]

A few weeks ago I was contacted by Home Depot’s PR firm about their new line of grill products and was offered the Brinkman Smoke N’ Grill to try out. So, this weekend I will be firing up the little guy on some beef ribs and pork tenderloin and letting you all know what I [...]